Barry Shoop received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He is Department Head of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, responsible for an academic department with 79 faculty and staff serving over 2300 students annually. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA and SPIE. He received the 2008 OSA Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award, the 2013 SPIE Educator Award, and the 2013 IEEE Haraden Pratt Award “for outstanding service to the IEEE.”

Earlier Dr. Shoop was a satellite communication engineer responsible for design and installation of a high-capacity, world-wide digital communication network, and also the CTO for a US$4.5B organization addressing the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) challenge worldwide. He holds a patent on photonic analog-to-digital conversion, and has authored over 150 archival publications as well as 8 books and book chapters. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Virginia, USA.

IEEE Accomplishments and Activities

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Recent IEEE leadership roles:

Board of Directors (2006-2010)

Vice-President, Member and Geographic Activities (2010)

Secretary (2008-2009)

Member and Geographic Activities Board (2006-2012)

Publication Services and Products Board (2009)

Executive Committee (2008)

Chair, RAB-MGA Transformation Committee (2006-2007)

IEEE-USA Board of Directors (2006-2007)

Director, Region 1 (Northeast US) (2006-2007)

Education Activities Board (2004-2006)

Major IEEE committees:

Globalization Strategy Committee (2014)

Nominations and Appointments Committee (2011-2012)

Chair, Member and Geographic Activities Board of Directors (2010)

New Initiatives Committee (2012)

Chair, Governance Committee (2008-2009)

Chair, Business Management System Committee (2008)

Strategic Planning Committee (2008)

Audit Committee (2006-2007)

Spectrum Magazine Editorial Advisory Board (2007-2010)

As Vice President, Member and Geographic Activities I was the architect of the Regional Geographic Strategy and Metropolitan Area Workshop.

Regional Geographic Strategy:

Leverages unique circumstances and commonality of the local geographic region to improve membership value and drive recruitment and retention – a software engineer in Bangalore has different professional needs than a software engineer in Boston.

Metropolitan Area Workshops:

Focus on practitioners to provide professional education, certification, career assistance and professional networking to support technical and professional needs.

Restructured the Governance Committee to make the entire IEEE governance structure more efficient and effective.

Chair, Business Management System Committee which guided the development of the current IEEE IT business platform. Results changed the entire IEEE IT Enterprise, including structure, governance, and architecture.

As Chair of the RAB-MGA Transformation Ad Hoc Committee

Led the transformation of the Regional Activities Board (RAB) into the Member and Geographical Activities Board (MGAB) – the largest IEEE transformation in recent history – focusing on the member.

Fred Mintzer received his BSEE from Rutgers University and PhD in EECS from Princeton University. He joined IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1978. Beginning in the middle 1980s, he managed a team that developed new technologies for image database applications and validated them in projects with cultural institutions that included the Vatican Library, Russia’s Hermitage Museum, and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. From 2001 until 2005, he managed the Visual Technologies Department which developed new technologies for digital imaging, computer graphics and data visualization. From 2005 until retirement in 2013, he was the Program Director for IBM’s Blue Gene Watson facility, which once included the world’s second most powerful computer. He contributed to over twenty-five patents, fifty publications, and several IBM offerings. His recognitions included membership in the IBM Academy of Technology and being twice named an IBM Research Master Inventor. He is an IEEE Life Fellow.

I initiated Long Range Planning that resulted in a new TAB mission statement: to Inspire, Foster and Empower Technology-Centric Worldwide Communities, which increased TAB focus on the vitality of its communities.

TAB created on-line communities, centered on TAB’s emerging technology activities – open and free to all. They now have over 20,000 members.

TAB created an e-magazine, IEEE Technical Community Spotlight, which republishes Magazine articles on emerging technologies and tells readers how to participate in emerging technology activities. It is provided free to IEEE members.

I championed a three-pronged Open Access strategy that was adopted by TAB and endorsed by the IEEE Board of Directors. We are now seeing Open Access successes.

TAB created the TAB Hall of Honor to recognize historic TAB contributions.

Statement

The IEEE serves, and is served by, an extraordinary community of technical professionals. I believe the needs and expectations of those tech professionals are changing. We need to provide more of higher current value. Today’s technology professionals expect more interactions, and higher quality interactions, within the IEEE and its communities. They also expect robust engagement in emerging technologies – which are centers of tomorrow’s job growth. These will help them remain technically current and offer opportunities for professional growth.

Let me share a few ideas on how we might do this.

To shift our communication from “one-way communication of static content” to greater “interaction on ideas,” we should develop and deploy social-media-based tools that enhance community discussion and collaboration. These will also better serve our young professionals.

We should energize our publications by associating complementary discussion, videos, and supplementary materials with them – with discussion possibly in a local language.

We should expand our emerging technology efforts and broadly share their results with IEEE membership.

We should increase our humanitarian efforts. Many members take great pride in their membership because of them – and they demonstrate our commitment to being a truly global organization.

We should develop crisper value propositions for key audiences. Four of special interest are: industrial employees, young professionals, author/researchers, and tech professionals in emerging economies. To meet their needs and expectations, we must know what they are.

If elected, I will support these and other ideas that create more current value for our members.

Tariq Durrani joined Strathclyde as Lecturer (1976); appointed Professor (1982); Department Head (of one of the largest in UK) (1990-1994); Deputy Principal (2000-2006) responsible for university-wide large-scale strategic developments.

His research covers Communications, Signal Processing, Technology Management. He has authored 350 publications; conducted collaborative research with industry, partnered in major European research programs; supervised 40 PhDs. Visiting appointments at Princeton, University of Southern California, Stirling and UESTC Chengdu, China.

Tariq has held Directorships in eight organizations including UK National Commission for UNESCO, Glasgow Chamber of Commerce; served as consultant advisor to Governments of UK, Netherlands, Portugal, UAE, US and European Union.

He is Fellow: IEEE, UK Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society of Edinburgh, and IET. Currently Vice President (International) Royal Society of Edinburgh (2012-2014).

Queen Elizabeth honored him with the title OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) ‘for services to electronics research and higher education’ (2003).

IEEE Accomplishments and Activities

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Tariq has served on most major IEEE Boards including Technical Activities, Educational Activities, Awards and Publication Services and Products; Conferences Committee, and led key Technical Societies, delivering achievements with long term impact: